Several outlets have published reviews of Nancy Isenberg's White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America. In his New York Times review, Tom Sugrue lauds aspects of the book while simultaneously arguing that Isenberg "falls prey to one of the most common and pernicious
fallacies in American popular discourse about class" insofar as she treats "America’s landless farmers and precarious workers [as] by default white." White Trash is also reviewed at Slate and the Washington Post (both of which commend Isenberg's provocative research but ambivalent treatment of race).

This week's Washington Post has a review of Carol Anderson's White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divideand also a review of Michael Graetz and Linda Greenhouse's The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right. In the latter review it is argued that "Graetz and Greenhouse contend that the dominant assessment of the Burger years severely understates the legal transformation that occurred during this period. “The Burger Court dramatically diminished the scope and impact of the Warren Court precedents: they survived, but only their façade was left standing,” the authors conclude.'"

In The Nation is a review of David Price's Cold War Anthropology: The CIA, the Pentagon, and the Growth of Dual Use Anthropology. Price's work traces the twentieth-century history of entanglement between anthropology and the security state. His work is described as provocatively suggesting that "one of the first things the Martian [anthropologists] would notice would be the Americans’ consistent aversion to any reminder of their work’s enmeshment in larger political developments. It drives Price crazy that his own tribe—the tribe of tribe studiers—could be so myopic about itself."